Change Management Culture Fractional VPE 
Altexsoft
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.
James Shore
OCTOBER 15, 2020
If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. Get Management Buy-In. If you want to be Agile, you need management support. The VP liked what I had to say. Counterintuively. probably not.
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Agile Engine
MAY 12, 2025
They flattened their engineering structure by entrusting some of the “pure” management responsibilities to technical leads. All the company’s engineers now ultimately report to the VP of Engineering for people management. Fostering a product-minded culture within their teams.
James Shore
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. Depending on the size of your organization, your HR department may have change management experts on staff who can help. If not, you can hire consultants. It can kill the change entirely.
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